If you are into strange cinema..the type of bizarre cinema that has you head-scratching intensely at the insanity on display then this is the flick for you. I'm being flat-out honest, I don't know what the hell I just finished watching. Minami(Hideki Sone)is to dispose of his paranoid, mad-as-a-hatter brother Ozaki(Sho Aikawa)in a distant locale. This is as close to normal at the plot ever gets.
Somewhere along the way, Minami enters Miike's own twisted vision of Twilight Zone where everyone is strange. Lots of bizarre behavior. Take the brother and sister who run the Masakazu Inn. The sister enjoys feeding her guests breast milk(Visitor Q, anyone?)and oh so wishes to assist Minami in washing his back. You see Minami, somehow, loses his brother and spends the entire film on a wild goose chase trying to find him. He gets assistance from a man with a pigment of white on one side of his face. The man's name is Mr. Nose and he was the one who insisted Minami stay at the strange inn. Nose wished to stay in Minami's room saying he had no funny business in mind. Later, Minami finds out that the waiter attending to him in a small café had died two years earlier. Oh, and two men in the café have the same conversation regarding how hot the weather is. As you read the subtitles, it's the same line of dialogue aimlessly repeating.Minami finds out that his brother stayed in the very inn he had slept the night before. Questioning the sister of the Masakazu Inn about, she shows him a hidden storage room they lent Ozaki for the night. Minami decides to stay in the room to see if Ozaki might return. What does return is a man with a cow's head(!)drooling milk and delivering a message from Ozaki that the local dump would be their meeting spot. The cow head continues in licking Minami's face! Also, we get an image of the brother sucking on sister's tit as they sleep! Minami goes to the dump where two workers question whether he has something to dispose of. Minami just wishes to know where Ozaki is. They claim to have crushed Ozaki with his innards in a storage tank while his flattened torso is hanging in a special room in plastic! Oh, and this hot little chick, sitting in Minami's car when he returns in disbelief, claims to be Ozaki in female form.
Should I go on? Boy, the ending is the icing on the cake. It only stamps the madness we are witnesses to on screen.
Somewhere along the way, Minami enters Miike's own twisted vision of Twilight Zone where everyone is strange. Lots of bizarre behavior. Take the brother and sister who run the Masakazu Inn. The sister enjoys feeding her guests breast milk(Visitor Q, anyone?)and oh so wishes to assist Minami in washing his back. You see Minami, somehow, loses his brother and spends the entire film on a wild goose chase trying to find him. He gets assistance from a man with a pigment of white on one side of his face. The man's name is Mr. Nose and he was the one who insisted Minami stay at the strange inn. Nose wished to stay in Minami's room saying he had no funny business in mind. Later, Minami finds out that the waiter attending to him in a small café had died two years earlier. Oh, and two men in the café have the same conversation regarding how hot the weather is. As you read the subtitles, it's the same line of dialogue aimlessly repeating.Minami finds out that his brother stayed in the very inn he had slept the night before. Questioning the sister of the Masakazu Inn about, she shows him a hidden storage room they lent Ozaki for the night. Minami decides to stay in the room to see if Ozaki might return. What does return is a man with a cow's head(!)drooling milk and delivering a message from Ozaki that the local dump would be their meeting spot. The cow head continues in licking Minami's face! Also, we get an image of the brother sucking on sister's tit as they sleep! Minami goes to the dump where two workers question whether he has something to dispose of. Minami just wishes to know where Ozaki is. They claim to have crushed Ozaki with his innards in a storage tank while his flattened torso is hanging in a special room in plastic! Oh, and this hot little chick, sitting in Minami's car when he returns in disbelief, claims to be Ozaki in female form.
Should I go on? Boy, the ending is the icing on the cake. It only stamps the madness we are witnesses to on screen.